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death bag


Wine Cask: We'd better go to the bottle'o and get ourselves a death bag for the night. Compare bag of death.

deathbag


cask of wine - obviously named thus after the inner bag and the fact that one often feels like death after drinking the contents: 'Hey, can you get a deathbag on your way?' Compare bag of death.

Contributor's comments: The deathbag was definitely in common use in Hobart, especially amongst students with less discerning tastes in wine. Cask wine also referred to as goon.

Contributor's comments: Wine Cask: "We'd better go to the bottle'o and get ourselves a death bag for the night."